Yes, that feature would do the trick.
The way to test this is to write a little wrapper script which just reads
for any garbage, and install it as your shell on the remote machine.
I don't have a pair of machines I can do this on at the moment or I'd
try it.
Something like:
echo 'prompt :'
read
exec ksh
>
> On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:19:34AM -0500, Rick Otten wrote:
> > > Yes, the error message is coming because ssh is terminating early but I
> > > don't think that the advice that Jason goes on to give (using extra keys,
> > > expect, etc) is correct. There is no reason why rsync can't handle a
> > > double prompt, because when you use "rsync -e ssh" all the prompting is
> > > handled completely by ssh; rsync has nothing to do with it. I just tried
> > > an example and it worked ok. Are you getting any other error messages
> > > before "unexpected EOF in read_timeout"? My guess is that you aren't
> > > getting properly authenticated to ssh. Using "rsync -e 'ssh -v'" may
> > > give you more info about what's going wrong.
> >
> > It looks to me like the second password is being required by the shell rather
> > than the ssh authentication mechanism... (sdshell)
>
> That could indeed be a problem because rsync is expecting the first data
> over the connection to be coming from its own corresponding executable. I
> just tried for example
>
> rsync -e ssh --rsync-path "echo 'prompt: ';/path/to/rsync"
>
> and it reported
>
> protocol version mismatch - is your shell clean?
> (see the rsync man page for an explanation)
> Received signal 16.
>
> That's not the error you're seeing though. I tried redirecting the prompt
> to stderr and then it worked after printing the prompt. I then tried
> inserting a "read" and it caused it to hang because rsync isn't reading
> input from its own stdin to send to its -e command. That still doesn't
> sound exactly like what you're seeing but I think it's on the right track.
> Maybe you need an option for rsync to pass data from its stdin to the
> remote side.
>
> - Dave
>
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